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The Central government on Wednesday defended the legality of the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in its counter affidavit filed in reply to a challenge to the constitutional validity of the new IT Rules.

The issues related to gambling expressly fall under the states' domain, and thereby, only the state government is responsible for taking action against online gambling websites, the Centre informed the Delhi High Court earlier this week.

The Delhi High Court bench issued a notice in the petition highlighting the sale of ‘Shein’ products on the platform of Amazon.in.

The transfer petition has been filed in Supreme Court by the Centre in the wake of pending matters before various High Courts across the Country challenging its new IT Rules.

Ld. ASG Mr. Sharma appearing on behalf of the center submitted in Delhi High Court that the said IT Rules were notified on Feb 25’ 2021 and that Twitter is in clear breach of the said IT Rules 2021.

Twitter admittedly qualifies as a significant Social Media Intermediary (“SSMI”) as defined under Rule 2(1) (v) of the IT Rules 2021 hence Twitter is obligated to comply with the provisions of the IT Rules, 2021 and the compliances set out therein

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in its counter-affidavit sought direction from the Delhi High Court restraining WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy and terms of service dated January 4.

New Delhi (ILNS): The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today issued a press release which states that the Ministry under section 69A of the Information Technology Act has blocked access to 49 mobile Apps.